Bill Moyers: But if God is the god we have only imagined, how can we stand in awe of our own creation?
Joseph Campbell: How can we be terrified by a dream? You have to break past your image of God to get through to the connoted illumination. The psychologist [Carl] Jung has a relevant saying: “Religion is a defense against the experience of God.”
The mystery has been reduced to a set of concepts and ideas, and emphasizing these concepts and ideas can short-circuit the transcendent, connoted experience. An intense experience of mystery is what one has to regard as the ultimate religious experience.
"which frames religion as the main barrier to peace and understanding"
Carl Jung framed it that way too.
The song title "Imagine" is also about the fact that we are believing in an "imagined" burning bush. #MergeSortReligions